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FDR: Being satisfied that the fulfilment of the military requirements of the United States will result in a shortage in the…

On the recordJuly 29, 1943
Being satisfied that the fulfilment of the military requirements of the United States will result in a shortage in the supply of copper and other materials and facilities for the transmission and distribution of electric energy required for the prosecution of the war, I hereby further authorize and direct...
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Executive Order 9366—Relating to the Operation and Disposition of Electric Energy at the Denison Dam

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